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Associate Professor Shane McCrae has been awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, a prestigious accolade from the Academy of Arts and Letters, which annually awards $20,000 to an exceptional poet.

True Biz (2022), the New York Times bestselling novel from alumna Sara Nović ’14, is out now in paperback from Random House.

Magma, written by Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir and translated from the Icelandic by alumna Meg Matich ’15, has been named among the seventy titles on the Dublin Literary Award longlist. 

Professor Phillip Lopate (CC ’64) has been voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a remarkable honor and well-deserved recognition of his lifetime of contributions to American literature. 

My Flawless Life, the fifth young adult novel from alumna Yvonne Woon ’10 (CC ’06), is out now from Katherine Tegen Books. 

Here, we talk to Fiction student Emily Johnson about the joys of phone banking, grassroots literary readings, and the alchemy of good fiction.

Second-year Nonfiction student Wally Suphap has been awarded this year’s Open City Fellowship from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

When Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Nonfiction, first encountered Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! in the Met’s European Sculpture Court, she wondered why—even post-abolition—the woman is still depicted as enslaved.

Alumna Sasha Wolff ’17 is a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award for her manuscript, The Boy Bandit

The swailing, a debut poetry collection from alumnus Patrick James Errington ’15, will be released this spring from McGill-Queen's University Press.

Welcome Me to the Kingdom, a debut story collection by alumnus Mai Nardone ’13, is out now from Random House. 

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From Here to There

by Lisa Cochran

A series in conversation with recent Writing alumni whose books are hitting the shelves, where we reflect on what the writing life looks like on the other side.

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Past Lives

by Jessie Shohfi

A series featuring Columbia writers who began their professional lives on different career paths.